The concert, in the large auditorium of the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, also counts on the participation of the Portuguese pianist Vasco Dantas, 26 years old, who completed a degree in Music with “1st class & distinction” at the London Royal College of Music , in the United Kingdom, and has already received more than 50 prizes in international competitions in several countries, according to a statement from the National Theater of S. Carlos.
The soprano Elsa Dreisig debuts on Sunday in Portugal, accompanied by the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra (OSP), in a program consisting of works by Mozart, announced the National Theater of S. Carlos.
Elsa Dreisig, 28, was honored with the Best Female Voice Award in 2016 for the Operalia singing contest, and in that same year she was the “Revelation Vocal” at the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards in France.
The concert, in the large auditorium of the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon, also counts on the participation of the Portuguese pianist Vasco Dantas, 26 years old, who completed a degree in Music with “1st class & distinction” at the London Royal College of Music , in the United Kingdom, and has already received more than 50 prizes in international competitions in several countries, according to a statement from the National Theater of S. Carlos.
In Portugal, the French-Danish soprano debuts with OSP under the direction of conductor Daniel Cohen, who was assistant conductor of Pierre Boulez and Daniel Barenboim, and is currently musical director-general of the Darmstadt Stadtheater in Darmstadt , in the State of Hessen, Germany.
The soprano premiered in 2013 at the opera “Der Wildschütz”, by Albert Lortzing, in the German city of Leipzig. Last year she performed Eurydice for Christoph Gluck’s opera “Orpheus and Eurydice” at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, where she played the role of Natasha in the opera “Violetter Schnee” this month, by Beat Furrer.
The pianist Vasco Dantas will perform on February 2 at the Baltazar Dias Theater in Funchal with the Classical Wood Orchestra under the direction of maestro Ariel Zuckermann to play Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and in the ” on the 17th, presents in the Haus der Evangelischen Gemeinde, in Düren, on the outskirts of Cologne, in Germany, “Portugiesisch Abend, Eine musikalische poetische Entdeckungsreise”, with the cellist Isabel Vaz.
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